Easy Family Meals: (Rice Perfection)

Have you ever struggled with making rice? I can't be the only one, right? Overcooking it or worse yet undercooking it. Trying to get it to a simmer but it's still boiling away! I have a very small kitchen and buying a rice cooker wasn't an option so I started researching other ways to cook rice with tools that I already had. The first method was a recipe for brown rice that you cook in the oven and that worked pretty well. The game changer was cooking rice in the Instant Pot though! I will never cook rice any other way! So while this is not an entire meal it has made my suppers more simple and in turn helped me to conserve energy.

So basically the recipe is one cup of rice to one cup of water and then *1/4 tsp of salt. Mix everything together and put the Instant Pot lid on. Set to high (manual). The only thing that varies is the time that it takes to cook the rice depending on whether it's white, brown or wild rice.

For (long grain) white rice: Cook on high for 3 minutes.

For (sushi) white rice: Cook on high for 5 minutes.

For (long grain) brown rice: Cook on high for 22 minutes.

For (short grain) brown rice: Cook on high for 24 minutes.

For wild rice: Cook on high for 30 minutes.

For wild rice blend: Cook on high for 28 minutes.

Wait for the pin to drop with natural release (anywhere between 13-30 minutes). Remove the rice from the pot after the natural release.

If you want to make bigger batches of rice just double or triple the recipe. So for two cups of uncooked rice you'd add two cups of water and then *1/2 tsp of salt. It's really as simple as that! I wish you simple suppers in your future!

* You can adjust the salt to 1/2 tsp per cup of rice/water but I find it too salty so 1/4 tsp has always worked for me.